The battle killed more than 7,500 Japanese troops, and Zhang Xueliang's troops asked for help but was rejected and reprimanded by Lao Jiang
The "918 Incident" that broke out on September 18, 1931, was the beginning of the Japanese imperialist invasion of China, and the Northeast Army, under the order of non-resistance, "handed over the three northeastern provinces to the people." Japan established a puppet regime in northeastern China and began a 14-year-long enslavement and colonization of the people of northeast China.
This was a disgrace, and the Northeast Army was reprimanded by the people, who did not want to fight the enemy, but they were soldiers. Military orders are like mountains, and they must obey the command. In this battle, our army was defeated without a fight, and the people lost hope. A later battle gave the people hope again, and the final victory of this battle also effectively promoted the arrival of the anti-Japanese climax in China.
This battle is the "Suiyuan War of Resistance", also known as the "Battle of the Lark Temple". The Suiyuan War of Resistance took place from November 1936 to December 1936 as a local war between Fu Zuoyibu, a local authority in Suiyuan, China, and Mongolian separatists such as the Japanese-backed Dewang. In the end, it ended with the complete victory of the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army.
In that year, after the outbreak of the Japanese war of aggression against China, the occupation of Inner Mongolia in China was part of the Japanese aggressor's "Manchurian-Mongolian Plan." To this end, the Japanese army made a lot of preparations, first occupying Rehe, and then using the Inner Mongolian national separatists and upper ruling forces, such as Dewang (Demu Chuk Donglupu) and other "Inner Mongolia Autonomy Movement". The last step, the Japanese army to do is to invade and occupy The provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan. Prepare to establish a puppet government called the 'Mongol Empire' or the 'Republic of the Great Yuan'.'
The Japanese army first occupied The province of Lychahar and then prepared to invade Suiyuan. The Japanese army also proposed to first win over Fu Zuoyi, the chairman of Suiyuan Province. Under the coercion and inducement of many Japanese generals, Fu Zuoyi refused all of them, and he swore to die to defend Suiyuan. Therefore, the Kwantung Army decided to launch an armed attack on Suiyuan. One of the generals of the Japanese army, Tanaka Takayoshi, once boasted: "During the "918" incident, the Northeast Army ran away as soon as it hit, and we did not take much effort to occupy the four northeastern provinces and establish Manchukuo. And the Suiyuan army is even more useless, it may run away as soon as it is frightened, and it will soon be able to take Suiyuan. But our army gave the Japanese army a painful blow!
In the spring of 1936, Chiang Kai-shek changed his attitude toward the Japanese army and transferred 5 divisions of the Central Army into Shanxi to prepare to attack the Red Army that had reached northern Shaanxi on the Long March, and also prepared to support the Jin Sui Army and resist the Japanese puppet army that invaded Suiyuan. On November 15, 1936, the Suiyuan Anti-Japanese War began, and in this battle it was divided into the Battle of Honggeltu, the Battle of Bailing Temple, and the Battle of Xilamuleng Temple. On December 19 of the same year, the Suiyuan War of Resistance was victorious! Because the Battle of the Bailing Temple had the greatest impact, people would call the Suiyuan War of Resistance the "Battle of the Bailing Temple" or the "Great Victory of the Bailing Temple".
During the Suiyuan War of Resistance, the Chinese army killed more than 7,500 Japanese troops, killed and wounded more than 1,400 puppet troops, and captured more than 600 puppet troops. It was another victory won by the Chinese army since the Great Wall Resistance In 1933. The whole of China set off a campaign to aid the Suiyuan War of Resistance. At the same time, it also affected Zhang Xueliang, who was wearing the hat of "general who did not resist the General" because of the "918 Incident" and did not resist the Japanese army. Zhang Xueliang took the Northeast Army, which had been defeated without a fight, to ask Chiang Kai-shek to go to the aid of the Sui Army, but was rejected and reprimanded by Chiang Kai-shek. Thus to a certain extent, it promoted the occurrence of the "Xi'an Incident" launched by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng later.